Gaming Parents Experience Nostalgia as Nintendo Console Enters Textbooks

[tom_mai78101]

News that the original Famicom Nintendo game console, first released in 1983, is now being taught in Japanese social studies class has sent shockwaves throughout Japanese social media.

A post by Twitter user @moriteppei announcing the news received a stunning 32,000 re-Tweets:

My daughter is in the sixth grade. When she came across my old console she said “That's a Famicom!” I said, “You're way too young to have ever heard of a Famicom.” And she said, “Of course I know what that is. We learned about it in social studies class!”

WHAT? They're learning about Famicon in SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS???

The original Nintendo game console occupies a special place in Japanese pop culture.

Nearly 62 million of the pioneering electronic gaming consoles, called Famicom in Japanese and marketed as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in English-speaking countries, were sold around the world until production ceased in 1993.

Parents Experience Nostalgia as Nintendo Console Enters Textbooks

"For elementary school kids, Famicom is not a toy, but something they have to study in school. What amazing times we live in."

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[Slapshot136]

makes sense.. heck id take that history class over another u.s. history any day

 

[Varine]

I took a video game history class. It was pretty damn boring

 

[Accname]

Probably is.
You dont want to hear about games, nobody does. You want to play them motha fuckas.